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anonymouscreampuff · 3 days

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"omg my favourite assassin i've missed yo--"

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #durgetash #gortash #enver gortash #the dark urge #dark urge #durge #ulder ravengard

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casp0re · 2 days

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One day I'll draw REAL fanart. Just not today-

#art #digital art #bg3 astarion #astarion #bg3 art #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 spoilers #artists on tumblr #artwork #my art #drawings

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jeeaark · 1 day

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Game-logic points to a lot of ways this would not have ended well. Thank gods the game is over and I like nice endings, so let's call this the Self-Indulgent Patch 0 Ending. It's got everything but hugs: Squid Beef, Bathrobes, Existential Eating Crisis, A Certain Illithid Finally Giving the Power of Friendship A Chance.

Maybe Game Squid wouldn't understand, but I like to think Silly Squid Buddy would understand.

It also took an embarrassing amount of time to figure out what Emps' get-out-of-bed outfit would be because I will never draw that overly-complicated armor ever again. Decided on bathrobes because cozy and BG3 One-Shot told me they exist and Gale can get Greygold 20.

Also I kept the egg for the dumbest of reasons. Jumped through some crazy logic hoops thinking Omeluum and Blurg would be involved in raising that egg and wanted to hand it to them personally at Baldur's Gate because I didn't like Esther's vibes and the other two seem like they had 'good dad' vibes. ALAS. Turns out their co-worker wanted to be mean to the egg so. Truly Greygold had always planned to make sure that dude never got his hands on another Githyanki Egg after their tadpole adventures, squidgold or not. Convenient that Greygold gets a free meal out of it. UNFORTUNATE TO LEARN 'YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT' IS A MINDFLAYER THING.

#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #the emperor bg3 #greygold #squid greygold #Squid buddy probs been sleeping long enough for Greygold to cool off; prepare for worst case scenarios #just in case there was like post-enthrallment side effects or something; who knows;#Maybe Emps just isn't a morning person

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a2zillustration · 2 days

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Gottem

[[ All Croissant Adventures (chronological, desktop) ]]

[[ All Croissant Adventures (app) ]]

#this guy was a perfectly anticlimactic final boss for us lmao #We ended up sneaking up to the roof and bypassing the entire flaming fist squadron throughout wyrm's rock #rolled up with full health and resources and kicked this man right in the dingdong #now for the sad bits :')#y'all we're finally in endgame I'm crying we're almost done aaaaaaa #what's gonna HAPPEN #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #croissant adventures #tav #karlach #gortash #comics

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justporo · 2 days

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Some days Astarion feels the pain of being a vampire more than others. He knows and feels it in every fibre of his being. He's different, he's a monster.

He's cold to the touch, his eyes glow red, he cannot go into the sun, his heart doesn't beat.

When you notice these moments of painful realisation you move to him as you see the shine in his usually bright eyes dim. And you wrap your arms tightly around him. So your warmth seeps into his body. And so he can feel your heartbeat drum through both of your bodies.

You hold him like this until he cannot tell if it's your warmth or his. Until you feel his spark return. Willing him to know that you'll let your heart beat for the two of you, no matter what.

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #astarion x tav #astarion x you #poro drabbles

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coreene · 19 hours

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I love the ideas of drawing Astarion and/or using the tadpoles to show him how he looks like through the connection but I have to say, I am a huge fan of how it was done in the game.

There is something so intense and intimate in the way he asks to learn "what you see" in that cutscene.

And maybe it's because I'm a writer but if I was in his shoes, just seeing myself or getting a picture of myself would not be nearly as effective as someone just coming, looking me in the eye and telling me what they think of how I look (assuming you were nice to him ofc.)

I'm still gonna see the imperfections of myself in a drawing, still gonna see the things I hate through someone else's mind image... hearing what someone genuinely thinks about you, and they are just praises you never thought of yourself is a whole different beast.

#Astarion #BG3 Astarion #Astarion Ancunin #Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion #Bg3 #Bg3 Spoilers #baldur's gate 3

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shaykai · 12 hours

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//BG3 Spoilers

Hey so if you destroy the SteelWatch and have Karlach with you when you confront Gortash, he puts the blame almost entirely on her and tells Tav/Durge to call her off so they can still work together

(If you show up without her he just yells at you for breaking all of his things before saying he’s going to murder you)

And now I’m stuck here thinking about how 1. He is absolutely aware of how bad having an angry Karlach in the room is for him and is surprisingly willing to forgive Tav/Durge toppling his empire of murder robots to get her off of himself

And 2. Something about him actively making excuses for a Durge because of course I’m thinking about that

Edit: Just to be clear! You still can’t actually side with him- you can tell Karlach to relax, but she’ll initiate combat regardless of dialogue choices

#listen I just think about how Gortash acts around durge a lot dbdbbdbdbd #he just wants his little murderous guy back and stupid heroics and amnesia are getting in the way of that #bg3 spoilers #baldurs gate 3 #karlach #enver gortash #Durge #durgetash

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sledgehammer-to-a-discoball · 2 days

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#durge #the dark urge #durgetash #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #enver gortash #dark urge #gortash #no longer you #epic the musical

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lunian · 15 hours

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Not only romanced Gale will wait for you if you fly away to fight Vlaakith (in my case it was Lae'zel's origin) but yet he is missing you dearly even if you turned a mindflayer

GET A MAN WHO LOVES YOU THIS MUCH🥺

#sobbing violently shaking hitting walls #galezel #bg3 #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 clip #bg3 video #gale dekarios #galemance #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #gale romance #lae'zel origin #bg3 spoilers #i suppose its all the same for any gith character #not sure you can fly with Orpheus if you are other race or dont romance Lae'zel idk #mystuff

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inaconstantstateofchange · 9 hours

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BG3 AU where Wyll's self-sacrifice in saving Baldur's Gate – from cultists of Tiamat, the queen of evil dragons, no less – at great personal cost creates the barest beginnings of a bond to the still-slumbering Ansur. After all, that stymied, accumulated draconic power would have had to dissipate somewhere, and would it not make sense for it to be drawn to the lodestone of a necrotic-energy suffused dracolich?

It would give Ansur a bit of a jolt toward waking, but not enough to bring him to full awareness. The part of him that remained curious, and hopeful, and mourned its lost connection to a bright spark of mortal devotion and nobility – in retrospect, lost to him perhaps even before Balduran’s transformation – latched on to that new path, following it to its end in the brilliant, marred soul of Wyll Ravengard.

After everything, after his father returns to the city, and Wyll... leaves it, he dreams. There’s a different, recognizable creature every time. It starts very small, a little fish in a pond he finds himself sitting by. He is tired and worn from keeping up his mask of careful good cheer, and his body aches from the scuffles it has been forced into. Mizora seems to get some entertainment from sending him after quarry just slightly above his level, or with not enough information to prepare himself adequately. He is learning quickly, but never quite quickly enough, it feels. Here, in this dreamscape, his eye socket still aches, but it is comfortingly empty of the stone that sits within in in the waking world, its chilling weight reminding him always of his mistress’s leash.

He trails his fingers within the pond, and the little fish darts away, a flash of blackened bronze scales. He can’t blame it; he’d hide from himself if he could, too. He says as much to the little creature, and fancies it moves a little closer to the entrance of its little hiding hole. Charmed, and encouraged by the thought that, after all, who else could he possibly speak to about any of this, he settles back against a small outcropping of rock alongside the pool, leaving his fingers bobbing gently in the water, but letting his eyes close and his attention wander.

He tells the little thing about his most recent quest — he likes to call them such sometimes, in the privacy of his own mind, because it lets him pretend that they are anything as glamorous and heroic as the future he dreamed for himself, Before. Even more privately, he draws a mental distinction between the quests he is allowed to take on of his own volition, and the jobs that Mizora sends him on, to further her own unknowable ends. Thus far, they don’t seem to have been anything too horrible, but he fears that such will not always be the case. What can he do about it, however? This was his bargain for the lives of every resident of the Gate, and his own acts at Mizora’s direction have not even come close to outweighing that number.

He is broken from this too-familiar thought spiral by a distinctly unfamiliar – and unexpected – brush of scales against his fingertips. He starts, briefly, but keeps his calm, and merely cracks open his eyes to look down at his little friend. It is poised to dart back into its crevice at the slightest motion, and he smiles down at it, keeping his fingers as still as he can.

“Have no fear — I will make no attempt at you, I swear it. At least one of us ought to be free.”

The little fish makes one last brush against his outstretched hand before darting away again. He fancies it swims with less frantic caution, this time, and counts it a victory enough. When he wakes, soon after, the memory of the strange dream does not fracture apart in the way of most dreams, but seems to tuck itself away, coming to the forefront of his mind only when directly called upon.

[Now with Part 2]

#i have more i'd like to write for this but this is where it's at for now #the themes of the two of them just work so well together i can't stop rotating them in my mind #wyll makes ansur remember what it is to be noble. ansur reminds wyll that he too is of the Gate - its very heart - and in no way expendable #bg3 #bg3 fic #bg3 au #baldurs gate 3 #wyll #wyll ravengard #bg3 ansur #ansur #wyll & ansur #my writing #bg3 spoilers #bg3 act 3 spoilers #(forgot to add those ones before VERY SORRY)

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littlemonday · 3 days

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So much of the difference in player response to the Emperor vs. Raphael comes down to aesthetics.

I’ve been seeing a lot of fan posting of Raphael lately, which is honestly fine. I enjoy seeing fan creations on all the characters. But I feel like I need to address something that is, for me, rather glaring in the fandom. Raphael is a pretty popular character, while the Emperor gets so much hate posting I’ve had to block users and entire groups on other sites because it was so over the top. These characters are functionally quite similar in the game, but the disparity in how they’re each perceived couldn’t be more different.

Both characters need to form an alliance with the main character. Both characters need the main character to defeat the brain. Both characters are willing to manipulate the main character to meet their own ends. But, one character is a conventionally attractive middle aged man, and the other is a humanoid squid monster. (How many times have we all seen posts about how upset someone was when their hot dream guardian turned out to be the squid monster?)

Not only is Raphael conventionally attractive, but he stays that way when he reveals himself as a devil.The Emperor presents himself as someone the main character would trust, but when he’s finally revealed, he bears no resemblance to the facade he was wearing - a facade that he sincerely believed was necessary to keep himself safe and to win your trust. Raphael is quite literally the handsome devil. His ascended form barely makes an appearance, but even so that form is not alien. It’s devilish, but not alien, and “alien” unlike devilish, invokes a deeply discomforting fear of the unknown.

Raphael is all opulence and performance, wearing tailored clothing and living in a grandiose house that hides the horrors of what happens there until late into act 3. While the mind flayer colonies by comparison are grotesque organisms that look like the inside of a body, and the Emperor’s home is a bare bones cellar with the last remaining keepsakes of his former life. The chains he uses to hold his victims are right out in the open.

Raphael is like an old school campy Disney villain who tries to entertain you all while openly admitting that he wants you to come to him when you’re desperate and all hope is gone. And like those old Disney villains, he just enjoys being evil. He even comes with his own villain song that he sings. He enjoys your suffering. He’s openly playing with his food. The Emperor does try to seduce you, but mostly tries to appeal to your pragmatism and empathy. However, he doesn’t have Disney villain camp to help him out here. He embodies all the body horror and fear over the player's loss of humanity by virtue of him being a mind flayer. He does have a song, but most of us miss it on our first play through and don’t hear its tragic lyrics.

Raphael, and this one is perhaps the most frustrating to me, imprisoned and tortured Hope for years! He takes advantage of people, including orphans, and gets them to sign away their souls for eternal torment in exchange for something they desperately want or need in life. While the Emperor has that one infamous cutscene in which we see him enthrall Stelmane, but it comes on the heels of the player dehumanizing and provoking him. A lot of players will refer to this as a “call out” and a “mask off” moment, which is very disingenuous framing. It’s frustrating that so few players never seem to consider the deeper role their choices may play in triggering this scene: you treat him like an inhuman monster, and you get an inhuman monster. Players will complain all the time about how the Emperor manipulates you and lies about everything, but apparently in this one scene he’s suddenly being completely honest and not manipulating you? So many never consider the possibility of confirmation bias when it comes to this character.

As I said, this cutscene is an obvious threat, but I know that just because he’s threatening you, it doesn’t mean there’s no truth to what you’re seeing. However, it also doesn’t mean that this is somehow “the truth” as so many players seem to think it is. I’ll write more on this in another post, but there’s just not enough information in the game to make definitive conclusions on their relationship. And I bring this up because I don’t see anywhere near the outrage over Hope as I see over Stelmane.

Then there’s Ansur. The Emperor killed his love, Ansur, out of self defense (we know this from Ansur himself), and for a lot of players, this was what solidified their hatred for the Emperor, and they will endlessly hate post about it. Raphael, on the other hand, never killed any of his loves. But the reason he never killed any of his loves is because he’s never loved anyone. He’s incapable of it, and anyone he has killed was, at best, a mere tool for his use.

Which brings me to my next point, even though both characters are trying to manipulate you to their own ends, only the Emperor sees you as more than a means to an end. Raphael does not. In fact, I wrote a lot of words on this very topic.

I’ve had people tell me that they like Raphael more because he’s upfront with his intentions, while the Emperor isn’t. That’s not entirely true. The Emperor tells you he wants his freedom, even tells you the power he uses to protect you is power he’s stolen, but he goes to great lengths to hide his identity, where Raphael barely goes to any lengths at all. As I said, the Emperor sincerely believes he must do this to protect himself. He likes to puff his chest out, but he’s quite aware of his own vulnerability, so he lives a life in which he’s constantly hiding and disguising himself. He’s surviving, as he puts it in the end. Raphael is essentially a prince in the Hells who wields a lot of power, and whatever vulnerabilities he might have are well protected. Whatever difference this makes is not enough to justify the gulf in how much hate the Emperor receives versus how little Raphael does.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this is not me saying that you have to like one character or dislike another. That’s personal, and I’m not going to waste time telling people how to feel. So please don’t take away from this that I want to see more hate posting about Raphael. I don’t! Please don’t hate post about any characters, and if you absolutely must, please don’t use character tags to do so. What I am saying is that there’s a clear double standard in this fandom, and I want more players to engage with this media in a way that is both empathetic and analytical. I think both of those things together can prevent a lot of toxicity.

#bg3 #the emperor #the emperor bg3 #bg3 emperor #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #raphael #media criticism #not a hate post #fandoms

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daemon-in-my-head · 17 hours

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Durge does not care who or when they kill. A child, an old man, a young couple. Doesn't fucking matter.

The brain calls Durge Murder Incarnate. And what is murder and death? Unfair. It doesn't matter how old you are or if you have things you still want to do in life. Death will steal a girl from her mother's arms and then refuse to take whom she leaves behind. Death is cruel and doesn't care about your circumstances.

Durge is death. Durge is a child who wasn't born. Durge is a thing not living but existing. Durge was crafted from a former mortal's essence, but they have never been a mortal themselves.

Durge kills for their own sake. For their own existence. It's selfish and vile, violent by nature and wholly incapable of caring about you. Mercy is them taking everyone, not just one person. But death will never stop killing

And then they found their version of life incarnate so they didn't wholly change their ways but learned how to control themselves and if you really want to go down that route you can read this as Gortash the inventor, the one who developed humanity further halting death. Not stopping it but slowing it down. Human advancements reducing the death we face and allowing for longer life's, yada yada yada. You catch my drift. He's humanity in that scenario.

Yes I'm going down the old nature gods road and you can't stop me. Symbolism save me. Symbolism.

#these parallels randmly popped in my head #truly a dynamic to explore #human advancements vs death #and how that still became their downfall in the end #good lord #theyre an apocalyptic prophesy #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #enver gortash #bg3 gortash #bg3 durge #durgetash #lord gortash #durge #gortash x durge #dark urge

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justporo · 1 day

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Do you ever just look at Astarion and think to yourself:

Yep, I'm never gonna get rid of this one...?

#because I know I do #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #whitehaired characters #and elves #and vampires #and he is all three of those #ugh

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flutteras · 1 day

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The Dark Urge and "No Longer You" from Epic the Musical fit so well together.

Inspired by @sledgehammer-to-a-discoball's post

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aelfreak · 2 days

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The Difference in Gods

Short Drabble (Gale x Durge implied, Durge is a wizard)

*Beginning of Act III, companions sit with Durge around the fire and drink wine*

Astarion: Darling, do you think all gods have lovers like Mystra? (looks mischievously at Gale)

Durge: Mystra... (chuckles) It seems, my dear father fucked half of Faerun, judging by the sheer number of bhaalspawn out there.

Jaheira: Well, technically he didn't have sex with mortals...

Durge: (spits wine in surprise) WHAT?! He didn't even fuck them?

*Durge lifts the bottle up and looks at the sky*

Durge: My dear patron goddess, you are still a sick bitch for what you did to my boyfriend, but you're officially better than my father!

*Gale tries to hide his beetroot red face in his hands*

#bg3 gale #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #gale x tav #gale x durge #durge #bg3 durge #bg3 fanfiction #dark urge

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koyunsoncizeri · 2 days

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Pov: you lockpicked the wrong house in baldurs gate. No there is no clown parts here and yes you will now perish.

#astarion #bg3 tav #bg3 fanart #bg3 astarion #art #tiefling #bg3 tiefling #bg3 spoilers #baldurs gate fanart #baldurs gate 3

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